 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCAL INDEX Although perhaps best known for its turquoise crystals, apophyllite on...kyanite, Virginia has, in fact, over 150 mineral species. and D. A L L E N P E N I C K , JR. Virginia Division...Mineral Resources P. O. Box 3667 Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 T H I S V I R G I N I A M I N E R A L L...world-wide locality index. The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...source of information in this Virginia index was Minerals of Virginia (1970) by R . V . Dietrich. A l |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Granite, near Red Stone quarry, Conway, Carroll County, New Hampshire. Henry Minot specimen and photo...Teller and Park counties, CO, USA Crystal Park–Bear Creek, El Paso County, CO, USA Pikes Peak Granite NYF...topaz, amazonite, phenakite Pikes Peak Granite NYF Miarolitic topaz, amazonite, phenakite References Muntyan...White, Chaffee County, CO, USA Mount Antero Granite NYF Miarolitic beryl, phenakite, bertrandite Jacobson...counties, ID, USA Sawtooth Granite in the Idaho batholith NYF Miarolitic beryl, phenakite, bertrandite |  | | Journal (issue) | | fee basis for people interested in collecting in Virginia. All the listed localities were open to the public...AMHERST COUNTY The amethyst site is located 4.35 miles southeast of Amherst, Amherst County, about 1...operated by Mrs.Charles R. Schaar of Amherst, Virginia, telephone (804) 946-5721. The collecting fee...BERYL MZNE AMELIA COUNTY The Beryl mine is located 3.8 miles east of.Amelia* Amelia County, off the southwest...the Amelia Court House 7.5minute qualrangle (Figure 2). It is operated by D. R,Boyles of Amelia, Virginia |  | | Journal (issue) | | February 1987 No.1 VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCALITY INDEX D. Allen Penick, Jr. This Virginia mineral locality...world-wide locality index The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...source of information in this Virginia index was Minerals of Virginia (1970) by R. V. Dietrich. Although...of the index. Some of the famous localities in Virginia, such Updated from Rocks and Minerals, Vol. 60...pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now |  | | Journal (issue) | | No. 3 WNERAL AND FOSSIL COLLECTING SITES IN VIRGINIA Palmer C. Sweet and 0. Allen Penick, Jr. - 9...fee basis for people interested in collecting in Virginia (Figure 1). All the listed localities were open...available from the Virginia Division of Mineral Resources, Box 3667, Charlottesville, Virginia, 22903. General...official State Highway Map as well as individual county road maps, both of which are available from the... in Virginia. AMETHYST SITE This site is located 4.35 miles southeast of Amherst, Amherst County, about |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University Auburn, Alabama 36849 cookrob@auburn.edu Phenakite Downloaded by [University of Tennessee, Knoxville]...at 04:13 19 December 2014 Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado A s virtually every collector knows...and some districts, such as those in San Diego County, California, and many of those in Minas Gerais...rarer topaz, garnet, and phenakite specimens. Perhaps America’s best-known phenakite occurrence, and certainly...premier aquamarine localities, Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado, was highlighted by Jacobson and Lees |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Minerals of the MOREFIELD DEGMATITE Amelia County, Virginia This large, complex pegmatite boasts...Geography James Madison University Harrisonburg, Virginia 22807 T H E M O R E F I E L D P E G M A T I T...E is currently the only operating gem mine in Virginia. Owned and operated by William " B i l l " D ...northeast of Amelia Court House, 0.4 miles northeast of State Road 628 in Amelia County. Pegmatites are...are common in the Amelia area. Lemke, Jahns, and Griffitts (1952) divide the Amelia pegmatite district |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | NOTES ON THE MINERALS OF AMELIA, VIRGINIA By ALLISON CUSICK, RD 2, Bloomingdale, Ohio With the recent...of activity at the old mica mines of Amelia Court House, Virginia, much more mineralogical attention will...found with the searching. Amelia Court House, the county seat of Amelia County, lies on U. S. Route 360...of the mines consisted of pegmatite dikes in the Amelia-Goochland Quartz-Monzonite Gneiss. But geology...the seventysix species which make collecting at Amelia so interesting. The list that follows should not |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Colorado; the Zapot pegmatite, Mineral County, Nevada; Carroll County, New Hampshire; the Morefield and Rutherford...Rutherford peg168 ROCKS & MINERALS matites of Amelia County, Virginia; Wisconsin; Tordal, Norway; Russia; and...correlation. Three samples of amazonite from Amelia County, Virginia, repeatedly showed Pb concentration below...below the detection limits. Samples from Amelia County were also analyzed for trace amounts of iron and...pegmatite, Nevada 1 3 4 5 91 95 0 0 Carroll County, New Hampshire 4 0 1 2 3 4 5 228 137 163 165 |  | | Report (issue) | | the cover—Turquois crystals from Lynch Station, Virginia; x ca.; pho tograph by Neal Ycdlin; color plates...C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...of Virginia R. V. DIETRICH* Professor of Geology and Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic...Polytechnic Institute Research Division Bulletin 47 Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va. 24061 *... © R. V. Dietrich and the Research Division of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1970 Printed and bound |  | | Journal (issue) | | the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Engineering Experiment Station Series, dealing with Virginia Mineral...Mineral Localities: Virginia Mineral Localities (1960 Edition) Virginia Mineral Localities (Supplement...(Supplement I) Virginia Mineral Localities (Supplement II) Virginia Minerals and Rocks (3rd Edition) Ex LIBRIS...\I i! II II BULLETIN OF THE ·, I !V I ii VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE Engineering Experiment Station...Series No. 151 Ii !I ·1 " ii :c H I I I I ! VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCALITIES ( SUPPLEMENT II ) By Richard |  | | Report (issue) | | pegmatite in granite, Short Tom Smith mine, Rockingham County, N. C______ ____ ____________________ _______________________...pegmatite and granite, E. R. Self mine, Gaston County, N. C____________________ 6. Sinuous discordant...bulge in the hanging wall, Knight mine, Rockingham County, N. C- ~ -7. Sharp hanging-wall contact, Knight...granite underlain by schist, Hawkins mine, Stokes County, N. C _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ 9. Same granite...and other units in the Big Bess pegmatite, Gaston County, N. C _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | BERYLLIUNT MINERALS IN THE VICTORIO MOUNTAINS' LUNA COUNTY, NEW MEXICO* Wrr.r.rauT. HorsBn, Cornell[Jniaersity...Victorio Mountains, 5 miles south of Gage, Luna County, New lvlexico. The area was visited in September...veins and pegmatites. The quartz veins of Chafiee County, Colo., Hill City, S. Dak., Irish Creek, Va., San...pegmatitic rocks is beryl, although chrysoberyl or phenakite occur in some beryl-bearing pegmatites. All beryl-bearing...crystallize; where less alumina is present, beryl may a At Amelia, va., helvite was found with spessartite as the |  | Bradley, Dwight, Shea, Erin, Buchwaldt, Robert, Bowring, Sam, Benowitz, Jeff, O'Sullivan, Paul, McCauley, Andrew (2016) Geochronology and Tectonic Context of Lithium-Cesium-Tantalum Pegmatites In the Appalachians. The Canadian Mineralogist, 54 (4) 945-969 doi:10.3749/canmin.1600035 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | monazite) by Tomascak et al. (1996); Morefield, Virginia, at ca. 253 Ma; and Hurricane Mountain, New Hampshire...Branchville, Connecticut Ray, North Carolina Morefield, Virginia Brazil Lake, Nova Scotia Appleton Ridge, Maine...Lord Hill, these include topaz, fluorite, and phenakite (Wise & Brown 2010). The pegmatite cuts diorite...pegmatite crystallization. Morefield NYF pegmatite, Virginia The Morefield pegmatite, in the central Virginian...of amazonite, fluorite, topaz, chrysoberyl, and phenakite (http://www.mindat.org/loc-4200.html, accessed |  | | Journal (issue) | | R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...Sixteen, Number Two Articles Recent discoveries of phenakite in B razil......................................16, March-April, 1985 Recent discoveries of Phenakite in Brazil J. P. Cassedanne Instituto de Geociencias...Fundao. 29910 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil INTRODUCTION Phenakite, Be2Si04, occurs in granitic and miarolitic pegmatites...Urals, Soviet Union; the Morefield mine, Amelia County, Virginia; and the Anjanabonoina pegmatite in Madagascar |  | | Journal (issue) | | Menzies Pink topaz from the Thomas Range, Juab County, U ta h .........................................contents. The Brown Derby No. 1 pegmatite in Gunnison County, Colorado, is described by Rosenberg (1972). In...fluorite, iron species. U ncom m only beryl, phenakite, rarely spessartine, tourmaline Quartz, microcline...microcline, albite, mica, octa hedral fluorite, phenakite and bertrandite (Sinkankas, 1981). The cavity-bearing...Batholith Oxford and Sagadahoc Cos., Maine Amelia Court House, Virginia Minas Gerais, Brazil (many separate |  | | Book (volume) | | Carolina South Carolina Tennessee Virginja West Virginia Southwest States VOLUME4: Northeast States............... Virginia ................................................ Vl/e t Virginia ................the early 1600s, when English settlers reached Virginia, they had been in tru ted "to searche for gold...exclusively i.n the Blue Ridge Mountains of Mitchell County, North Carolina, to be true hiddenite. Preface...in the mid-nineteenth century in 1 lanchcster, Virginia, and a greenish 34.46-carat diamond named the |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...NEPTUNITE from the Benitoite Gem mine, San Benito County, California. Buzz Gray collection; photo by Harold...enite, tourm aline, spessartite, *samarskite, phenakite, monazite, *aeschynite, *cancrinite, zircon Guardeck—...ekaterinburg 50 km N -S and 15 km E -W Emerald, *phenakite, *alexandrite, brom ellite Q uarry m ountain...Largest o f Izum rudnye Kopi Emerald, alexandrite, phenakite M angut M a H ry r Tow n Chitinskaya O blast’ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and of beryl by an association of chrysoberyl, phenakite and bertrandite. The development of a Be phosphate...De Vivo & M.L. Frezzotti, eds.). Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia (117-130). Bottinga, Y. & Richet...“Inclusions in minerals”. Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia (345-362). Diamond, L.W...“Inclusions in minerals”. Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia (209-215). Druguet, E. (2001):...associated pegmatites, Black Hills, South Dakota, USA: implications for solubility and evolution of magmatic |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...homes, first in Pottstown, then in Earlysville, Virginia, where he moved upon retirement from the Cabot...$10 v.8/#6 California Issue Benitoite, Gold L.A. County Museum, Himalaya mine $10 v.9/#3 Kalahari rhodochrosite...localities in Idaho, Maryland, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin. Known reserves are abun dant but...Geology Museum Colorado School o f Mines C urator: Virginia A. Mast Tel: (303) 273-3823 G o ld en , Colorado |  | | Book (edition) | | at the outstanding shows of the annual San Diego County Fair at Del Mar, California. In addition, the collections...purple crystals, 5" by 4", Iron Station, Lincoln County, North Carolina. CRYSTAL GROWTH 73 light from...replacing glauberite crystal; Camp Verde, Yavapai County, Arizona; size 2" by 2". Top center: calcite replacing...twins of aragonite, 3" by 2¼"; Las Animas, Bent County, Colorado. Top right: Kaolinite after orthoclase...replacing marine shell; New Port Richey, Pinellas County, Florida. Bottom left: talc replacing enstatite |  | | Book (volume) | | Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Joan Baltzley, owners & operators, Morefield Mine, Amelia, VA; Max & Suzy Berchtold, Royal Rainbow Mine,...Cantlin, Ellis, [D; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gem Center USA, EI Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...AZ; Richard A. & Tresa L. Kosnar, Golden, CO: Virginia & Larry Kribs, Desert Dog Mines, Bend, OR; Guy | | | Book (edition) | | the out- standing shows of the annual San Diego County Fair at Del Mar, California. In addition, the collections...purple crystals, 5” by 4”, lron Station, Lincoln County, North Carolina. CRYSTAL GROWTH 73 light from...the San Pedro Mine, Hiriart Hill, Pala, San Diego County, California, showing the many steps and offsets...prisms with pyramids and rhombohedrons—tourmaline, phenakite, willemite, dioptase, calcite, quartz, hanksite...which comes from Coso Hot Springs area of Kern County, California. The latter specimen exposes a spherical |  | | Book (volume) | | referring to any locality in the book. JS: Arlington, Virginia. June, 1959 Acknowledgments Tue successful...Royal Ontario Museum, Carl B. Gerber of Arlington, Virginia, and in the case of gemstone deposits in British...Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the mines in which they...the generous assistance of many residents of that county. My special thanks are extended to Elbert H. McMacken...were prepared by Joseph M. Delaney of Arlington, Virginia, under the supervision of the author. The final |  | | Book (edition) | | the outstanding sho,vs of the annual San Diego County Fair at Del Mar, California. In addition, the collections...purple crystals, 5" by 4", Iron Station, Lincoln County, North Carolina. CRYST AL GROWTH 73 light from...replacing glauberite crystal; Camp Verde, Yavapai County, Arizona; size 2" by 2". Top center: calcite replacing...twins of aragonite, 3" by 2¼"; Las Animas, Bent County, Colorado. Top right: Kaolinite after orthoclase...replacing marine shell; New Port Richey, Pinellas County, Florida. Bottom left: talc replacing enstatite |
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Morefield Mine, Winterham, Amelia County, Virginia, USA